Our message is going to come
from Philippians chapter 4, if you would like to turn there
with me. Philippians chapter 4. I believe
I have a message not only for this moment in time, but for
every moment in time. Every moment. Never is there
a time when a child of God does not need to hear this right here. Never is there a time. Philippians
4 verse 19, it says, Just let that sink in. Just let that sink in. Think
about those words. Lay hold of that. Honestly, trust
that. If the Lord has given you the
ability to believe that, believe that. Trust that. Trust it. His Word is so true. His Word
is so forever. His Word is so unchangeable. Trust that. My God shall supply
all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus." Don't you love the word shall?
Don't you love that word shall? Aren't you so glad for the fact
that the message that has been given for me to declare to you,
God's message to us, aren't you so glad that it is not My God might supply your need. Might. Aren't you so glad for
the fact that the message does not say there's a 50-50 chance. It just, it depends on how some
things go. We have our fingers crossed.
We're hoping everything will be okay. Not at all. Not at all. This is what Paul said, and I
love how matter-of-fact the Word of God is. He said, My God shall. I love that. My God shall. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.
Shall. He said there's only one outcome
in this. And that's the truth. There's
only one outcome in this. There's only one outcome. This
can only go one way. How's it going to go, Paul? God
shall supply all. That's good news, isn't it? All.
Not part. Not most, not 99.9% of it, all
of it, all our need, all our need. This flesh is so weak. I know it, you know it, this
flesh is so weak. This flesh is constantly saying,
I wonder if God is going to take care of us. Isn't that what this
flesh constantly says? I wonder if God's going to take
care of us. I wonder if He's going to provide for us. I wonder
if He's going to provide for our needs. I wonder if He is. According to His own Word, God
shall. God shall. Write it down. Go to the bank with it. Expect
it. That's what hope is. It's expected
anticipation. Expect it. Expect it. God shall supply all your need. Now there are two very important
questions. Two very important questions
that need to be considered with this. Two very critical questions
that we have to ask before we can go any further, before we
can take this message any further. The first question is, who is
he talking to? That's an important question.
He's talking to somebody. Who is he talking to? The second
question is, what is our need? What is our need? Who is he talking
to? And what is our need? Those are
two very important questions. And the reason is because The
scriptures are not written to everybody. The scriptures are not written
to everybody. That right there, what we just read, that's not
a blanket statement to everybody. God is not speaking to. He has not told his apostles
and his prophets to write to everybody. Everybody, God's promises are
not to everybody. When we see the word shall, every
time we see the word shall, that's a favorite word of mine in the
scripture. Every time we see the word shall, that's a promise. That's a promise. But God has
not ever, not one time ever made a general open promise to the
world as a whole, never, never. God's promises are particular
promises to particular people. He always, every time, He always
very clearly clarifies who He is speaking to every time. This
promise here is no different. Verse 1 in this chapter, if you
look at Philippians 4 verse 1, it says, Therefore my brethren
dearly beloved. He's speaking to brethren dearly
beloved. Beloved by who? God. Beloved by God. Paul said loved
by me as well. Absolutely. But only because
of his love first. Only because of his love, he's
speaking to brethren, dearly beloved, dearly beloved. That's an amazing thought. Dearly
beloved by God. Not just loved, but dearly loved. Paul clarified this, clarified
who he was speaking to in the first verse of the whole letter.
He wrote this epistle, this letter to the Philippians. If you look
with me at chapter 1, in Philippians chapter 1, Paul
opened his letter stating exactly who he was writing it to. Philippians
1 verse 1 says, Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ,
two, all the saints in Christ Jesus. All the saints in Christ
Jesus. He said that to the people of
Philippi and he said that to the people of every city he wrote
to. And the things that were written
to them are written to us if we are in Christ Jesus. If we are in Christ Jesus, the
things that God said to them who were in Christ, those same things are said to
us who are in Christ. That's the condition. That is
the condition of every promise that he has ever made, every
promise God has ever made. All of the promises of God are
in Christ. in Christ forever, forever. His word to His people does not
change. That's another thing we love
about Him. His promise to His people does not and will not
ever change. Never. 2 Corinthians 1 verse
20, it says, All the promises of God in Him, in Christ, are
yea, yes. And in Him, amen. So be it. Unto the glory of God
by us. All the promises of God in Christ
are yes and so be it. Yea and amen. And in Christ,
in the Lord Jesus Christ, all those that the Father placed
in Christ, Every soul that God the Father selected, and that's
what He did. God the Father selected throughout
every tribe, nation, kindred, tongue, generation. God selected a people and He
gave those people to His Son to redeem them, to save them. to make the payment for them.
They had this great payment, this great debt they couldn't
pay. God gave them to Christ to make the payment for them,
pay the debt for them, to be sacrificed for them, to do for
them what they couldn't do for themselves. Every soul that the
Father placed securely in Christ, this is the promise to that soul,
every one of them. If you look back in chapter four,
Philippians chapter 4 verse 19 says, My God shall supply all
your need. Here's the promise to every soul
that the Father put in Christ. My God shall supply all your
need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. So that's who the promise is
to. It's to those who are in Christ. It's to those whose hope
is in Christ. That's what Paul said in verse
21 right here. He said, salute every saint in
Christ Jesus. That's who I'm talking to, in
Christ Jesus. And if anyone is wondering whether
or not they are in Christ, if a person is with us right now, and is wondering whether or not
they're in Christ. That's a good thing to wonder.
That's a good thing for every man and woman to stop and question. Am I truly in Christ? Every man and woman in religion,
in the Christian religion, thinks he or she is in Christ. But the
question is, am I really? Am I really in Christ? If a person
is wondering if he or she is truly in Christ, if you are wondering,
is my hope really in Christ? Based on the Word of God, this
is how he says we can know. According to God's Word, this
is the evidence. This is the evidence of a sinner
who's in Christ. That sinner's faith Meaning that center's trust,
that center's belief, that center's confidence, what that center
is looking to. When you ask a person, what's
your hope of going to heaven? What's your hope of being saved?
What are you looking to? What are you trusting in? What
are you clinging to? Some people will say, well, I
was baptized. I'm going to cling to baptism. Some people will
say, well, I made this decision. Everybody has something they're
clinging to. A sinner's faith who is in Christ,
his trust, his confidence, will not be in himself at all. This is how we can know. Here's
the evidence. A sinner's faith, what he's looking
to, what he's trusting in, what he's hoping in, will not be in
himself at all. Not at all. It will be totally
in Christ. Totally. If we are in Christ,
if we're in Christ, our hope won't be in our work before God
at all. at all. It'll be in Christ's
work before God. It won't be in our decision or
our will at all. It'll be in Christ's decision
and Christ's will. It will be in His. It won't be in our sacrifice.
Man is always trying to make sacrifices for God. It won't
be in our sacrifice. It won't be in any payment that
we could ever make to Him. It will be in Christ's sacrifice
and His precious payment, that payment of His blood only, alone. If a sinner is in Christ, his
hope of salvation and his hope of perfection before God, it
will not be in himself. He will have no part in it. He
will have no part in it. His all, I mean His all, when
He says, this is it, this is all of it. This is all I have. His all will be in Christ. Christ will be all He has. Christ will be all He has. Everything
He has before God, everything He is before God, and everything
He will ever be before God, will be in the person of the Lord
Jesus Christ. His standing before God will
be as he stands in Christ. That's the only standing we have,
isn't it? The only standing we have before God, the only way
we can stand before God is if we stand in Christ. That's the
only standing we have. If a sinner is in Christ, he
will know in his soul, he will know this. He will say, if I'm
going to be complete before God, I'm only going to be complete
in Christ. That's it. As complete as he
makes me to be, that's how complete I'll be. If I'm going to be righteous
before God, perfect and holy and just, if I'm going to be
righteous before God, I'm only going to be righteous in Christ. As righteous as He makes me to
be, that's how righteous I'll be. That's the evidence. That's the evidence of a center
that God has placed in Christ. God removes that sinner from
himself. That sinner will spend his whole
life looking to himself, looking to himself. His hope will be
in himself. And God will remove all that.
He will stop him from looking to himself. And he will take
that sinner and plunge that sinner into the work and into the sacrifice
and into the blood and into the mercy and into the grace. and
into the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. So that's who this promise
is to. And if that's us, if God has
made Christ to be everything to us, everything, if we see
everything to be in Him, then this promise right here is to
us. God shall supply all our need. All our need. Now, here is the second important
question. What is our need? What is our
need? What do we need? What do we need? I want us to really think about
this. I pray the Lord might allow us to really, truly ask this
question, really search our heart, search our soul. What do we need? When you get to a moment in time
where you have to strip down everything except only what you
need, what do we need? What do you need? Here's what
a believer will say. I need Christ. I need Christ. Humanly, fleshly,
naturally, I mean naturally in the flesh, but I'm saying naturally,
obviously, naturally. We want to be spared the infection of
germs, viruses, diseases, naturally. That's what we want. Naturally,
we want a stable economy. We want to retain all the luxuries
of our life. We all want that. We all do.
All of us want that. But that's not our great need.
That's not our great need. We need Christ. We need Christ. We need Christ. If he spares
us from the infection of a virus, that's his great kindness to
us, that's his That's his loving kindness toward us if he spares
us from that. But what we need is to be spared
the judgment for our sin. That's what we need. The virus
of our sin, the scripture calls it that loathsome disease that has infected every soul
on this earth. We need to be spared the judgment
and we need to be healed from the disease of our sin. That's
what we need. That's what we need. And that
can only be found and that can only be had in Christ. That's
it. We need this man. That's what
I want us to really enter into. We need this man. We need this
man. This, as he worded it, flesh
and bone. We need this flesh and bone God-man. We need the Lord Jesus Christ.
If we have Him, if we have Him, we have all we need. All we need. If we have Him,
we have a hiding place from the judgment. Do you know that? We
have a hiding place from the judgment. If we have Him, we
have the only sacrifice for sin that there is, the only sacrifice
that God will accept, the only one, His own Lamb slain, the
one that He provided, the one He supplied to satisfy our great
need. Verse 19 right here says, but
my God shall supply all your need according to his riches
in glory by Christ Jesus. God shall supply all our need
according to his riches. According to his riches. What
that means is When He supplied what was required to satisfy
our sin debt need, that great sin debt need, when He supplied
what was needed, He supplied it richly, so richly. He supplied it abundantly. A
lot of times men will stand up and say, you know, falsely, they'll
lie to people and say, well, now God started the work and
you have to finish it. God gave half of it, you give
the other half. When he supplied that need, he
supplied it richly. He supplied it abundantly. He
abundantly pardoned. He paid double for the debt of
our sin. Double for all our sins. Where
sin abounded, grace did much more abound. That free gift, that free supply much more abounded. Romans 2 verse 4 speaks of the
riches of His goodness and His forbearance and His longsuffering,
the riches. Romans 9 verse 23 speaks of the
riches of His glory the riches of His glory. Ephesians 1 verse
7 speaks of the riches of His grace. So rich. Ephesians 2 verse 4 speaks of
the riches of His mercy, the riches of His mercy. We need
His mercy every day, every moment of every day. Every day we sin
against Him. And every morning, when we wake
up the next morning, it starts over brand new. A brand new slate
of mercy. Rich in mercy. 2 Corinthians
8 verse 9 says, Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became
poor, that you through his poverty might be rich. If we have that,
we have all we need. We have all we need. If God the
Father has supplied Christ to us, He has supplied all our need. Now, has He supplied Christ to
us? Has He? If we, in our heart and
in our soul, if we need Him, if we need Him, not His, Meaning
not what he has. Everybody wants what he has.
Everybody wants heaven. Everybody wants a mansion. Everybody
wants golden streets. Everybody wants what he has.
Everybody wants what they can get out of him. Not those things. If we need him. Have you ever
been in love with somebody? Have you ever just been taken
with somebody and just needed that person? No matter if they
have a million dollars or live in a cardboard box. Have you
ever needed somebody because you love that person? If we need
Him, if we need Him, then this is what it means. It means we
have Him. If we need Him, it means we have
Him. If God the Father has put a need
in us for Christ, and here's the question, is it there? If
God the Father has put that need in us for Christ, then that's
the evidence that He has given us Christ. He has given Christ
to us. If we need Him, then we have
Him. And if we have Him, then not
only has God already supplied our great eternal need, that
redemption, that salvation, But with that, God will also supply
every physical need. And this is the truth. Every temporal need all the days
of our life on this earth. If He has supplied that need,
He will supply every need we have on this earth. And in His kindness, He may supply
even a few of our wants. Maybe so, but most definitely
all of our needs. Look with me at Luke chapter
12. Luke chapter 12. Verse 22. He said unto his disciples, therefore,
I say unto you, take no thought for your life. Let's listen to
our Lord. as he speaks this to them who
are in Christ and to us who are in Christ. Let's listen to him
as he speaks to us, okay? He said unto his disciples, therefore
I say unto you, take no thought for your life. What you shall eat, neither for
the body what you shall put on, The life is more than meat and
the body is more than raiment. Consider the ravens, for they
neither sow nor reap, which neither have storehouse nor barn, and
God feedeth them. How much more are you better
than the fowls? And which of you, with taking
thought, can add to his stature one cubit? If you then be not
able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for
the rest? Consider the lilies, how they
grow. They toil not, they spin not, and yet I say unto you that
Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
If then God so clothed the grass, which is today in the field,
and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe
you? And this is the part where he's
speaking to me. He's talking to me right here. He says, O
ye of little faith. And seek not ye what you shall
eat or what you shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. Don't be of a doubtful mind.
For all these things do the nations of the world seek after. And
your father," I love that. Is he our God? Yes, he is. But
he said, your father, knoweth that you have need of all these
things. But rather seek ye the kingdom
of God and all these things shall be added unto you. Fear not,
little flock, for it is your father's good pleasure to give
you the kingdom." What an amazing promise. What
an amazing promise. He said, seek ye the kingdom
of God and everything else will be taken care of. What is the
kingdom of God? What is heaven? What is heaven? It's Christ. He is heaven. Seek Christ. Look to Christ. Dwell on Christ. Come to Christ. Come to Christ and every need
we have, every need we have, will, shall be taken care of. It's a promise. He said, all
that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh
to me I will in no wise cast out. He said, come unto me, all
ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will, I shall give you
rest. He said, we can approach His
throne boldly that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help
in time of need. Need, that moment when we're
crying, Lord, I need, I need You. I need You. I'm seeking
You because I have so many needs. There's a little chorus, a little
song that says, Jesus Christ is made to be all I need, all
I need. Christ is all I need. He's all
I need. If that is a sinner's need, God
shall supply it according to his riches in glory by Christ
Jesus our Lord. That's good news to me. That's
good news to me. I hope it is to you too. I pray
it is. Let's close our service with
a word of prayer.